questions from wiki migration mtg

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:

> Sorry I couldn't attend today.  Here's some stuff I dug from the IRC
> log:
>
> * UserName => User:username ... ouch
>   - anything we can do with mod_rewrite?
>     - some of these pages are well indexed and referenced
>   - any reason we cannot migrate all the wiki/UserName to an equivalent
> wiki/UserName and let people source that to fill out their User:username
> page.
>     - I understand that User:foobar has special meaning in MediaWiki and
> agree it is worth the hassle for those who want the functionality; do we
> have to force the feature on them and break their URLs?
>

Ah, forgot one thing, when you move a page in mediawiki I think it
auto-forwards the old page.  So after someone moves something, it'll
redirect properly.

	-Mike